On March 7, Corinth, who had always had an ambiguous attitude, finally showed his attitude and annexed Sparta, which meant that the entire Peloponnese fell into the hands of the Spartans.

Wang Jun merged the Argos and Corinthian regions into the Argolis Administrative District, with the capital in Corinth; The Corinth region is ideally located between the Peloponnese and Attica peninsulas, sandwiched between the Gulf of Corinth and the Gulf of Salami.

By taking control of the administrative region of Argolis, the Spartans would be able to control half of Salami Bay and fight against the Athenian navy.

On March 31, the Spartan Empire was proclaimed, with a total population of more than 3.8 million and six administrative regions.

The capital of the empire was, of course, the city of Sparta.

In other words, this is also the first time in human history that the capital of a country is not a low-level city; Sparta doesn't even have walls, let alone those backward and old-fashioned buildings, compared to Corinth, Argos and other cities, Sparta can be described as shabby; However, Leonidas and the pure Spartans really didn't care about that.

Emperor of the Empire, of course, Leonidas; The priests of the city-states were under the direct management of Leonidas, and the divine power could not be left behind, and Leonidas, who had already suffered losses, did not need to be reminded by the king's army again.

The Senate, the highest authority in the Spartan Empire, had 56 seats; 30 proto-Spartans, 8 proto-Arcadians, 6 proto-Tegias, 6 proto-Mantinians, and 6 proto-Corinthians; As for the Argos and Ahamia, all the nobles and citizens were transformed into the status of Helots.

The Spartan [***] team, the scale is unprecedented, of course, can only be compared in Greek circles; Compared with the Persian Emperor [***] team, the number of Spartans is still not enough.

The army expanded slightly, bringing the total to 100,000 men.

10,000 Spartan Royal Guards, 40,000 Spartan Wehrmacht, 50,000 Spartan militia;

30 large trebuchets with 3,000 trebuchet troops; 3000 longbowmen.

As for the navy, the total reached 50,000 people.

50 large 101-class warships;

138 201-class triremes;

36 cornered Achaia warships, 12 Corinthian warships remaining after the Battle of Salami, all joined the Spartan Navy; Yuribiade, who was very satisfied with the new warships, immediately arranged a large number of manpower to raid and modify these 48 warships, and all of them were transformed into 201-class triremes.

The total strength of the Spartan Empire reached 150,000, and the powerful army made the Delian Alliance highly nervous.

Led by Athens, more than 20 city-states such as Sesby, Fosse, and Thebes formed an unprecedentedly powerful Delian Alliance, far exceeding the scale of the confrontation with Sparta in the original history, and many neutral city-states have joined the Delian League; Dozens of city-states of Reading are united like never before, and their unity is even greater than that of the time against the Persians; Even the Thebans, who had always been dissatisfied with Athens, exhausted their old foundations, and the army and navy did not leave any of them, and all of them were sent to Athens.

Because a large number of neutral city-states joined the Delian Alliance, and all the city-states were exhausted, the strength of the Delian Alliance, which was originally not enough, skyrocketed; The Persians came with the news that they remained neutral on matters between the Greeks.

The total number of the army of the Delian League reached 70,000, and the three city-states of Epirus, Aetolia, and Evia together accounted for 30,000, otherwise the Athenian army that was disabled by Persia and a dozen other small city-states would not be able to make up the scale of 70,000; Because the Athenians were familiar with the terrain, and the boss of the Delian League was Athens, the position of the commander of the 70,000 army was handed over to the commander of the Athenian army, Kalimaya.

In the navy, there were 312 triremes and 178 two-oars, with a total of 94,000 men, including sailors and oarsmen.

In terms of the comparison of troops, the Imperial Spartan Army had more than the Delian Alliance, but the Navy was less than the Tilos Alliance; If you compare the combat power, the combat effectiveness of the Spartan Empire Army can definitely surpass the Delian Alliance, and the navy, it seems that the Delian Alliance will win the Spartan Empire.

Of course, this is only the opinion of the heads of the Delian League such as Themistocles; For the royal army, regardless of the army and navy, the Spartan Empire did not fall behind.

Wang Jun rarely had a short period of leisure, so he naturally took the Spartan beauty Dina around; Wander around the mountains and rivers during the day and roll the sheets at night. The food comes to open his mouth, the clothes come to stretch his hand, and the life is very moist, Wang Jun slowly got used to this kind of enjoyment of life; For the sake of his surname, Wang Jun flattered and asked the plug-in system to see if he could borrow the plug-in's white light hut that could keep people alive, and bring Dina with him when he returned to the real world.

"No problem, as long as you die in this world, I will implant Dina's body, and I can naturally take her anywhere......"

The above are the original words of the plug-in, Wang Jun complained about it for a week, saying that he vomited at night; It's no wonder that my sister's little hands are cold, and my classmates say that I hate the system with intelligence the most, especially this pit master with a crippled will; But fate is sometimes nonsense, making people powerless to resist, just like Sanlu milk powder and gutter oil, pit hundreds of millions of people, change the vest and everything continues.

Thinking of the countless tragic past events in reality, Wang Jun suddenly became enlightened; Now this life, combined with the cigarettes in the ring of the space, seems to be very good, and those who are content are always happy.

Although the Spartan Empire and the Delian Alliance were gathered together, and the war seemed to be imminent, after half a month, the two sides only maintained a state of confrontation; The only thing that happened during this period was that the huge combined fleet of Delos drove out 50 Spartan warships operating around the western entrance of Salami Gulf from the bay, although there was no actual battle between the two sides at that time; Sparta needed time to rebuild 48 triremes, while the Delian Coalition was looking for the right plane, or rather, Timistocles was looking for a fighter to attack the Spartan navy.

Sneak attack on the Spartan Army?

Timisocles never thought about it, and even if the commander of the Union Army, Kalimaya, dared to think about it, Timistocles would beat him into a fool; You can't even fight the Persians, and you still want to fight the Spartans?

In Themistocles' strategic deployment, in the early stages of the war, the Delian Alliance's land forces were mainly defensive; After defeating the Spartan navy, the Delian Alliance Navy had full control of the sea power, and could flexibly raid many Spartan cities and consume the war resources of the Spartan Empire, and finally it was the turn of the Delian Alliance's army to attack.

This deployment was supported by all members of the Delian League, and it was not believed that the new Spartan navy would be able to defeat their combined fleet; The news that the Spartan Navy's warships were fully rebuilt and upgraded, Timistocles and others knew very little.

April 14, 479 B.C., 3 a.m., Salami Bay; The night was dark and windy, and there was only a little light in the sky.

Wang Jun stood on the bow of the battleship "Yuribiad," and his spiritual perception covered the sea surface within a radius of 0.6 nautical miles; because of the weather, normal visual vision could only barely see light-colored objects more than 100 meters away, and no matter how far away, he could not see anything; of course, if it was a torch or something, normal people could find it more than 10 nautical miles away.

At Wang's suggestion, Yuribiad had all the ships black, and the sails of the Class 101 ships scarlet; According to the current environment, it is difficult for people with poor eyesight to see up and down a hundred meters, and the battleship is completely integrated into the night. Wang Jun's suggestion came from the outfits of Leonidas' men in trousers, black leather briefs and scarlet robes; Of course, when convincing Yuri Biad to them, Wang Jun changed his rhetoric, and only told Yuri Biad and a bunch of naval officers, "This is how masculine!" ”。

Behind the "Yuribiad", there was also a "half-finished" triremes warship in tow; 117 Spartan warships were moored at the east entrance of Salami Bay, and 70 Spartan warships were berthed at the west entrance of Salami Bay; The wind and waves are not small, but they are not too big, and they are still within the tolerance range, and as for the larger 101-level battleships, of course, there is no problem.

The 45-meter-long battleship "Yuribiad" was jolting forward in the rolling waves, and as for Yuribiad himself, he shamelessly relied on the 101-class battleship "Leonida" moored outside the bay; He said that his eyesight was not good, and he could not command night battles, but his command of naval warfare had recently improved a lot, and he was finally able to adapt to the command of a large fleet after night training.

All the admirals of the Delian League would not believe that the Spartan navy, which was obviously in a "weak" position, dared to take the initiative to attack them, and that it was still on such a bad night; At this time, even the lighthouse had not yet been invented, and Wang Jun vaguely remembered that it was not until around 270 BC that the Greeks built the world's first lighthouse on the island of Pharos; In total darkness, near-shore night sailing is almost unthinkable without direction guidance and water lighting.

Sparta's fleet relied entirely on the king's army to lead the way, and nearly 200 warships were connected end to end before slowly sailing into the area of Salami Bay. Now Wang's single ship is dragging and attacking, and the rest of the warships can only stay out of the bay honestly; Of course, the entire fleet kept the lights under control and remained silent all the time, trying to make as light as possible in any movements.

On the one hand, the combined fleet of Delos was looking for fighters, and on the other hand, it did not want to give the Spartan fleet a chance; 490 warships, try to keep them relatively concentrated, and Themistocles will never divide their forces or station; The size of the Spartan fleet was not very small, and it should be the best policy to maintain the scale advantage of the combined fleet at all times.

The huge combined fleet of Delos, all docked at the port of Piraes, on the southern outskirts of Athens; Because of the overcrowding and the fact that the wind and waves were not small for three consecutive days, the 490 warships were connected and fixed with wood, ropes, rivets and other objects every night, which could effectively avoid accidents in which the warships collided with each other due to the influence of wind and waves.

Cao Ying was not the first lord in history to do this, but the Athenian military governor Themistocles was the first; The corners of Wang Jun's mouth cracked, and a faint and confident smile appeared on his face, the Delos Alliance fleet, which had entered the range of his spiritual perception, was indeed the same as said in the intelligence, leaning on each other, and the entire fleet slowly rose and fell with the churning waves, and the effect of resisting wind and waves was really good, but ......

In the face of a huge fleet of 490 ships of the same size, Wang Jun broke in with a single ship, of course, not to single-handedly challenge the other party; Set fire, this is the purpose of Wang Jun's coming.

The wind is strong, there is no rain, the night is dark, and the company camp is definitely a good time to set fire to kill.

Timistocles was very cautious.

No one thought that the Spartans would dare to come to Salimi Bay, but he still demanded that the fleet be on high alert, and this did not include the night, of course; In this era, there was no talk of naval warfare at night, and everyone was accustomed to fighting during the day and resting at night, which was very different from the army; At present, the wind and waves are high, and the line of sight is only 100 meters, and the combined fleet still has some naval officers and men on duty, which is already a very rare level of vigilance.

Wang Jun commanded the battleship "Yuribiad" and went around to the upwind position on the harbor side.

On the surface deck of the battleship, ten "illegal buildings" were temporarily erected, which looked like small closed pig pens, with a wooden wall 1.3 meters high and 3 meters wide enclosing a square space, with a trap door on one side; the 9-square-meter deck was covered with three layers of copper skin, and the inner surface of the surrounding wooden walls was also covered with copper skin.

A brazier was placed near the corner of the wall, the surface was a sheet of linen soaked with oil, and the deep brazier was full of oil; To set fire, you must first "play with fire"; When Wang Jun entered, the brazier had already been lit. The brazier is only 50 centimeters high, and there are wooden walls on all sides, so the wind has little effect on the brazier, but the fire head will sway; Several naval soldiers stood outside the wall, several barrels full of fire oil at their feet, clusters of heavy arrows stuck straight into the barrels.

Seeing Wang Jun standing still with a bow, one of the soldiers immediately handed Wang Jun a special heavy arrow; Behind the arrow, a "coat" about 12 centimeters long is wound around the shaft of the hornwood arrow. The soldier was very quick in his work, and the heavy arrow had been picked up for a while, and the speed at which the fire oil dripped from the arrow was already very slow; And the way to hand the arrows is that the arrow feathers are on top and the arrows are down.

Bow up, bow the body, light the fire, wait 12 seconds; Wang Jun leaned back and fired his bow, and the rocket flew high with the wind like a meteor; With a difference of about five seconds, a total of 10 rockets were raised from the battleship "Yuribiad" and flew towards the Combined Fleet of Delos, which was more than 300 meters away.

Shooting on a battleship with ups and downs is not an easy task, and it is even more difficult to accurately shoot at the target; Fortunately, the target was "huge", with 490 warships close to each other, like a square the size of several football fields.

In the dark night, whether it was the 10 rockets that suddenly appeared in the sky or the battleship "Yuribiad" that lit up with fire, it immediately attracted the attention of the officers and men on duty of the Delian Combined Fleet; Don't think that you can block the light with a wooden wall, the fire in the ten "little pig pens" is exposed through the reflection of the sky above the battleship; Of course, Wang Jun built the wooden wall only to facilitate the ignition, and did not care about being discovered by the enemy after launching an attack.

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